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<h2><a name="cab">Cab</a></h2>
<h3>Description</h3>
<p>The cab task creates Microsoft cab archive files.  It is invoked
similar to the <a href="../Tasks/jar.html">jar</a> or <a href="../Tasks/zip.html">zip</a> tasks.
This task will work on Windows using the external cabarc tool (provided by Microsoft)
which must be located in your executable path.</p>
<p>To use this task on other platforms you need to download and compile libcabinet from
<a href="http://trill.cis.fordham.edu/~barbacha/cabinet_library/">
http://trill.cis.fordham.edu/~barbacha/cabinet_library/</a>.</p>
<p>See the section on <a href="../dirtasks.html#directorybasedtasks">directory based
tasks</a>, on how the inclusion/exclusion of files works, and how to
write patterns.</p>
<p>This task forms an implicit <a href="../Types/fileset.html">FileSet</a> and
supports most attributes of <code>&lt;fileset&gt;</code>
(<code>dir</code> becomes <code>basedir</code>) as well as the nested
<code>&lt;include&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;exclude&gt;</code> and
<code>&lt;patternset&gt;</code> elements.</p>
<h3>Parameters</h3>
<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
  <tr>
    <td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
    <td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
    <td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">cabfile</td>
    <td valign="top">the name of the cab file to create.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">Yes</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">basedir</td>
    <td valign="top">the directory to start archiving files from.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">verbose</td>
    <td valign="top">set to &quot;yes&quot; if you want to see the output from
      the cabarc tool.  defaults to &quot;no&quot;.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">compress</td>
    <td valign="top">set to &quot;no&quot; to store files without compressing.
      defaults to &quot;yes&quot;.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">options</td>
    <td valign="top">use to set additional command-line options for
      the cabarc tool.  should not normally be necessary.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
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    <td valign="top">includes</td>
    <td valign="top">comma- or space-separated list of patterns of files that
      must be included. All files are included when omitted.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
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    <td valign="top">includesfile</td>
    <td valign="top">the name of a file. Each line of this file is
      taken to be an include pattern</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">excludes</td>
    <td valign="top">comma- or space-separated list of patterns of files that
      must be excluded. No files (except default excludes) are excluded
      when omitted.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">excludesfile</td>
    <td valign="top">the name of a file. Each line of this file is
      taken to be an exclude pattern</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">defaultexcludes</td>
    <td valign="top">indicates whether default excludes should be used
      or not (&quot;yes&quot;/&quot;no&quot;). Default excludes are used when omitted.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<h3>Parameters specified as nested elements</h3>
<h4>fileset</h4>

<p>The cab task supports one nested <a
href="../Types/fileset.html"><code>&lt;fileset&gt;</code></a>
element to specify the files to be included in the archive.
  If this is specified, the "basedir" attribute cannot be used.
</p>

<h3>Examples</h3>
<blockquote><pre>
&lt;cab cabfile=&quot;${dist}/manual.cab&quot;
     basedir=&quot;htdocs/manual&quot;
  /&gt;
</pre></blockquote>
<p>cabs all files in the htdocs/manual directory into a file called
manual.cab in the ${dist} directory.</p>
<blockquote><pre>
&lt;cab cabfile=&quot;${dist}/manual.cab&quot;
     basedir=&quot;htdocs/manual&quot;
     excludes=&quot;mydocs/**, **/todo.html&quot;
  /&gt;
</pre></blockquote>
<p>cabs all files in the htdocs/manual directory into a file called
manual.cab in the ${dist} directory. Files in the directory mydocs,
or files with the name todo.html are excluded.</p>
<blockquote><pre>
&lt;cab cabfile=&quot;${dist}/manual.cab&quot;
     basedir=&quot;htdocs/manual&quot;
     includes=&quot;api/**/*.html&quot;
     excludes=&quot;**/todo.html&quot;
     verbose=&quot;yes&quot;
  /&gt;
</pre></blockquote>
<p>Cab all files in the htdocs/manual directory into a file called
manual.cab in the ${dist} directory. Only html files under the
directory api are archived, and files with the name todo.html are
excluded. Output from the cabarc tool is displayed in the build
output.</p>

<blockquote><pre>
&lt;cab cabfile=&quot;${dist}/manual.cab&quot;
     verbose=&quot;yes&quot;&gt;
  &lt;fileset
       dir=&quot;htdocs/manual&quot;
       includes=&quot;api/**/*.html&quot;
       excludes=&quot;**/todo.html&quot;
  /&gt;
&lt;/cab&gt;
</pre></blockquote>
<p>is equivalent to the example above.</p>



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